Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power of the famed Soong sisters of China has long been an open book. The influence of Magda Lupescu, mistress of Carol II of Rumania, is openly acknow edged in Rumania. But the role that Edda Ciano, née Mussolini, has played in the momentous recent realignments of European nations, has been half concealed by a regime which refuses to admit women in politics. The Official Life of Benito Mussolini, by Giorgio Pini, a translation of which was recently published in London, allots only three short sentences to Daughter Edda: 1) to report her birth; 2) to tell about...
...period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. Unmarried, he called his pictures his "children...
...entertainers as Rudy Vallée, talks on U. S. cinema, Broadway gossip, other U. S. small talk. Because U. S. programs, unlike the German and Italian, were always on time, were delivered by fluent linguists (usually Latin-Americans), they became highly popular. But obstructive mountains, and interference from European stations make it hard for South Americans to hear...
...engineers hope Big Bertha will be powerful enough to come in clearer than its German rivals. Its news will certainly be more credible. Hundreds of South American listeners have lately written to U. S. stations that they regard European newscasts as blatantly biased, those from the U. S. as objective. Said one: "Station W2XAF is considered a semi-official news bureau here. . . . When "we do not hear it, we ignore the news, particularly the foreign news...
During her ensuing reign as amateur queen of the ice, Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing...